Motion sickness is a common disturbance occurring in healthy people as a physiological
response to exposure to motion stimuli that are unexpected on the basis of previous …

This series of articles for rehabilitation in practice aims to cover a knowledge element of the
rehabilitation medicine curriculum. Nevertheless they are intended to be of interest to a …

Ataxia, causing imbalance, dizziness and falls, is a leading cause of neurological disability.
We have recently identified a biallelic intronic AAGGG repeat expansion in replication factor …

In The Vestibular System: A Sixth Sense, leading experts present an integrative,
comprehensive and innovative look at the sense that Aristotle missed. The vestibular system …

Perceptual direction detection thresholds for yaw rotation about an earth-vertical axis were
measured at seven frequencies (0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2, and 5 Hz) in seven subjects in the …

To assess the contributions of the vestibular system to whole-body motion discrimination in
the dark, we measured direction recognition thresholds as a function of frequency for yaw …

Patients with chronic vestibular symptoms are common in neurological practice but the most
effective treatment remains an open question. The purpose of our study was to conduct a …

Subjective vertical orientation, eye and body movements, and motion sickness all depend
on the way our central nervous system deals with the gravito-inertial force resolution …

Many neurons throughout the rat limbic system discharge in relation to the animal's
directional heading with respect to its environment. These so-called head direction (HD) …

Sensory input evokes low-order reflexes and higher-order perceptual responses. Vestibular
stimulation elicits vestibular-ocular reflex (VOR) and self-motion perception (eg, vertigo) …